The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-09-15


Of the crop. One
man ought 10 geta SENATOR ruGH
living for himself and his hands from forty
acres Of land and raise at the same time ten
bales Of cotton You rent him these forty
acres for perhaps one-third Of the crop, and
YOU rent him at the same time mule Your
share Of the crop should be three bales, which
will amount 10 perhaps the value Of 500.
The land, we will say, is worth $3.50 Your
mule has cost You Sl25, and your total in
yesiment for this land has been, We viii say,
S4OO Out Of this You have gotten 500,
which is a very fair percentage
"Y0u were in congress beforethe war, were
YOU not, senatorf
"Yes was elected 10 the United States
congress III 1883
The subject Of Calhouns monument here
came NJ. and asked Senator Pugh II be had
ever seen Calhoun He replied
NO. visited Washington iH 1880 when
/ the Departments were draped in mourning
/ for Calhoun's death he was In my mind,
the greatest logician this country has ever
bad His great intellect was improved by
continuous hard study and he bad the strong
est Of convictions He was not man of
feelings and Of passions a. were Webster and
| Clay. but one Of cold, pure intellect.
Il saw both Clay and Webster during that
visit Senator Pugh went on, "but Clay was
failing and lacked the fire OF his early days
/ beard him speak III the senate. But he
| failed 20 command the attention that ]
| thought he should have, and he vas not AS
| eloquent As when heard him some years be-
fore AT Meridian, Miss Webster, however
still held all of bis power heard him IN a
debate with Dayton. Of New Jersey Dayton
made the first speech, and IN Il he reviewed
Webster. record on the subject under discus
sion lie made powerful speech and TO my
mind he lcft Webster very little ground %
| stand upon did not see how Webster could
reply 20 him, and watched him anxously
He rose very coolly, began calmly and tore
Dayton's speech to bits, took It up piecemeal,
and demolished the whole structure. He
practically amihilated him, and with the
greatest ease Ii was masterpiece
Senator pugh was member Of congress At
the time the war broke out He was after
wards member OF the Confederate congress
and be served throughout the war upon the
military committee lie held one Of the
most important positions IN the congress at
Richmond asked him whether be thought
Davis had any idea Of making himself die
tator lie replied,
No. he did not. Noman can be dictator Ia
this country, aud Davis knew that very well.
Our people will not tolerate a King on an
emperor over them, AMI Me moment man
attempts % make himself such be viii be cut
2 "a. 10 h.
the Confederacy chose "a military man as
president Davis was a graduate Of West
Point He had served in the Mexican war,
and he had been secretary OF war under
Pierce He wanted % command armies and
direct the military movements, whereas 1t
would have been better II We had had presl-
dent who would have devoted himself entirely
10 hi, executive duties. Had We bad business
man at our head We would not have lacked
resources Howell Cobb, for instance, would
have hyp0thecated the cotton az the start,
and We would have plenty Of money 70 have
carried ON the war
knowing "a you do now, senator, what the
people of the north were al the time the war
began. knowing what their resources were
then, and the patriotism by which they were
animated. do you think the south ever had
any chance of succeSsF
Eyes. think it had once This vas at
Shiloh. II We had known then what we 30
now we could have auuihilated Grants army.
Had We done so our troops would have pushed
Oh into winter quarters upon the Ohio river.
This would have given to the south Missouri,
Kentucky and Tennessee, and with the pro
visions and men which We would have gotten
from them 1 think We would have been sue
ces,ul At the beginning Of the war our
men were better disciplined and better men
than those Of the north Our army WA then
nude up Of the flower of the south, and We
had more trained men among us than the
north had | think. had We succeeded at
Shiloh. We could have brought the north to
terms
But IN that case would the Confederate
government have been a success"
$40. ! think not. The feeling among the
people Of the south was such that they would
not have consented TO permanent separa-
ton They would have come together on
some terms within year, and the old nation
would have gone on. The politicians could
not have kept the two sections apart Be
sides the Confederate government was con
irAry to human civilization. ltwas contrary
70 the advanced public opinion OF the world
at the time Ia my mind IL was bound 70 20
under. We wanted TO force slavery into
territory where nature had never intended II
should 20. and we based our struggle upon
the ground OF its extension. We had been
agitating the subject for a gereration and
We hal come 10 believe 50 firmly that We
were right that nothing but war could have
changed lis believe now that the fight
was Inevitable, and do not think that sla.
very could have been abolished in any other
way. The war Was q cruel one, but 1t Is bet